Sunday, April 14, 2013

Magazines or catalogs (seed catalogs would be especially good) for cutting apart

Books about the artist (see suggestions below)

Video links and websites.

Project: This is a very simple, cut and glue, collage art project based on the composite heads of the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

Review some, or all of the books, videos, and websites linked below with your children.

Cut out as many pictures of fruits, vegetables, flowers, or really any other items desired, as you can find in your magazines. Older children can do their own cutting, but you will probably want to present younger children with a pre-cut selection of pictures.

Provide an assortment of construction paper or card stock sheets with glue sticks, and let the children go to town piecing together faces from the fruits and flowers.

Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy, from the National Art Museum's online resources for their Arcimboldo exhibit, narrated by Isabella Rossellini.

And, one more from YouTube, featuring teams of children designing different faces using the same basket of play fruit. It's a little long and slow, but makes for good discussion of how the same items can be used create very different faces depending on the eye of the artist.

Art Projects for Kids: A short lesson idea, and a printable 40''x48'' mural to color (downloadable for $5.00 - we've done one of her murals in the past, it was worth every penny).

This sort of project is an unschoolers dream, because it presents so many jumping off points for further study - symmetry, zoology, botany, the Age of Discovery, the Hapsburg Empire, Leonardo da Vinci, the modern surrealists, and so on and so on to wherever fancy and imagination takes you.

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